HMD Global Announces Release Date for New Nokia 6 Smartphone

HMD Global announced today that the Nokia 6 will release in the US sometime in July.

The owner of the Nokia brand, HMD Global, announced earlier this year that a new mid-range Nokia Android phone will be releasing in the United States. The new Nokia 6 will feature a 5.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 display, Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 processor, 3GB of RAM, and will have an internal storage of 32GB with room for expansion via microSD. The Nokia 6 will also run the default Android Nougat operating system. The Nokia 6 also comes with a fingerprint scanner and a 16-megapixel camera. The Nokia 6 will cost $229 when it launches in July and will be available exclusively through Amazon. Alongside the announcement of the Nokia 6, HMD Global announced the lower end Nokia 5 and Nokia 3.

The Nokia 5 will offer a slightly smaller 5.2 720 x 1280 display and will use a Qualcomm MSM8937 Snapdragon 430 chipset with 2GB of RAM. It will include 16GB of internal memory storage and with be expandable like the Nokia 6. Its camera will be 13 megapixels but will retain all the features found in the Nokia 6’s camera.

The Nokia 3 is developed to be company’s lowest-end smartphone. The phone has a five-inch 720 x 1280 display and uses a Mediatek MT6737 chipset with 2GB of RAM. The storage remains the same as the Nokia 5 and 6 but the camera will only be eight megapixels and will include fewer features.

Nokia paved the way for cellphones back in the early 80’s offering some of the first mobile phones on the market. The company continued to grow, releasing phones until the year 2013. After being bought by Microsoft, the company employed many of Nokia’s staff to help develop Windows phones.

Microsoft sold Nokia to a division of HMD Global, a company located in Finland. HMD Global’s goal is to work with Nokia to re-establish the Nokia brand by releasing new devices.

While the Nokia 3 released this month, the Nokia 5 and Nokia 6 will be available in July. All three phones are currently available in India.